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What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age?
An anonymous reader writes: New research from Spotify and Echo Nest reveals that people start off listening to chart-topping pop music and branch off into all kinds of territory in their teens and early 20s, before their musical tastes start to calcify and become more rigid by their mid-30s. "Men, it turns out, give up popular music much more quickly than women. Men and women have similar musical listening tendencies through their teens, but men start shunning mainstream artists much sooner than women and to a greater degree."
As I sit here with "The Who" playing on my MP3 player.
Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
but men start shunning mainstream artists much sooner than women and to a greater degree
That's cause we're much cooler than women.
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pop music is 'given up' because it targets a demographic of youth as a branding and marketing driver. Bieber sells the idea of manufactured sex appeal to young women, while angsty pop rock sells the idea of rebellion and individuality through consumption to boys. LMFAO and Pitbull are just clever branded advertising for premium alcoholic spirits and luxury apparel/vehicles. They set a standard outside of childhood that no self-respecting adult would entertain.
30somethings are a very difficult democraphic to market anything to. Pop themes like true love, freedom, rebellion, and partying fall on the deaf ears of millenials who've seen systemic police corruption and racism as a tool of an increasingly totalitarian state basically wipe the concepts out. Miley Cyrus' magical transformation into some glam rocker didnt shock us because we didnt grow up caring about the moral majority and conservative culture war dogma.
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... but mine is unchanged. I still like new stuff of a certain style, and that is all I ever liked. I am quite offended by your assumption that your faults would apply to me.
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Basically, I just went from all loud all the time, to some loud, some of the time.
I find that my emotional palette has grown more subtle as I get older, and my taste in music has reflected this with greater variety.
I still like head-banging music, but I have a thing for old fart music, too.
As a kid born in the early 1980s, I mostly listened to pop.
In the mid-1990s I started listening to mostly what would then be called "alternative rock".
In the mid-2000s, I switched to mostly pop.
In the 2010s, I'm listening to mostly pop and dance music, with a lot of EDM, and some hip-hop. My musical tastes are wider than ever.
As I post this I'm listening to the last song added to my music library Ariana Grande's "One Last Time".
Really, what more needs to be said?
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and wish their kids only listened to the good stuff they grew up with. my dad grew up with classic rock and hated 80's metal bands that i listened to. listening to rap around him was likely to get you a beating
Who still affirmatively listens to chart-topping music in their 20s? I started listening to chart-topping music around 4th grade. I decided it was mostly garbage by 7th grade. Now, don't "listen" to chart-topping music so much as I am assaulted by it when in public places.
One day you'll learn, youngsters.
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Circle of life, dude, circle of life.
Used to listen to rock and metal but I acquired tinnitus several years ago racing motorcycles. Listening to anything else is painful, but I have also really grown to appreciate classical for it's own merits. There is something amazing about music written almost 300 years ago that is still moving and relevant.
An example would be Bach's paritas and sonatas for violin which are still considered to be an apex in music.
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we still like new artists, just the definition of 'artist' changes as you leran more.
Either it becomes more diverse or more narrow. For examples of the latter, I offer up dead heads.
I realize this analysis is about "popular" music, so this may not entirely fit. But last year I listened to one of those Great Courses sets on "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" and really changed what I've been listening to, which now includes quite a bit of concert music (baroque, classical, etc.) that I never really appreciated before. Am I an outlier that I'm picking up something new just as I turn 40, or does this not count because it's not pop music, and old fogies are supposed to drift into listening to this ancient stuff anyway?
I'd say I've also picked up a lot of new material recently because of Pandora, but I'll admit most of that is older music, where it's a genre/style I liked, but I somehow missed some of the artists from that era who are similar to ones I already liked.
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my music tastes have calcified to an endless loop of tu tu ruu : (
Many if not all of my fellow musician friends actually stop being such fucking snobs as they mature and realize just how well conceived a lot of pop music is.
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
My musical tastes soured because of all the corporate bullshit. Now it's indie YouTube videos for me. AdBlocker is my friend.
My Taste changed dramatically at an older age than mentioned, the reason?
When I could grab an album without concern of "Am I wasting my money?" my taste expanded dramatically.
I got more diverse musically the older I got.
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I've always liked rock with strong guitar sound. problem is It all died out in the 90s. there's been some pretty good jokes about that on the family guy cartoon.
I didn’t RTFA, but I suspect the truth is more complicated than the summary. I was a child in the 60’s and didn’t pay attention to music back then. Somewhere in my 40’s I was like Whoa! Why wasn’t I paying attention to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin when it was on the radio??? I liked disco and still do. I liked New Age in the 80’s but now I’m like WTF was I thinking. Current music seems pretty good to me especially groups like Maroon 5 and OK Go. I even find my foot tapping to Katy Perry.
Different genres seem to have different peeks in different years to me. Funk was at its best in the 70s and 80s., Rap the late 80’s early 90’s. Blues and Jazz seems good in all eras. Hard Rock 60s and 70’s. Heavy Metal 80’s and 90’s. Techno from 90’s through today.
My dad on the other hand only liked Jazz and thought Rock was fad even in the 80’s and 90’s and opined several times that he thought its age was almost over (seems Rock has out lived my dad).
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my dad grew up with classic rock and hated 80's metal bands that i listened to.
And guess what they play on classic rock stations nowadays? 1980s metal.
I used to, until Zayn Malik left One Direction, then all hope was lost.....
I'm 29, and I grew up listening first to the usual children-related pop stuff, then mostly what was played on the radio and popular. In my late teens and early twenties I was deep into metal, no other genres were acceptable. Now, over the last 6-7 years, my music tastes have broadened enormously, I listen to everything from country to jazz to rock to classical and just about everything in between.
I have hundreds of CDs, gigabytes and gigabytes of downloaded and ripped music, all of it something that struck a chord with me in some way at some point. Lately I've started a small LP collection, because there's just so much good music to be found in thrift stores and record store bargain basements for almost no money. I got a whole bundle of ELO albums for just a few bucks the other day, and as soon as I started playing them I thought to myself "why the hell haven't I listened to these guys before? This is awesome!".
Life's too short and music is too wonderful to limit yourself to arbitrary genres and popularity contests. There is amazing music in every genre, just waiting for you to listen to it.
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I think it is an issue that when you get into your 30's you are allowing your mind to close.
As a Teenager, you are old enough to appreciate the quality of music so the music you listen to was new and exciting. As you get older you find the pattern predictable. The fact it has been predictable for hundreds of years, and every couple of decades a new element is brought in, but still most music is base on repeating over and over again.
I find the new stuff isn't that bad, and I enjoy it, and it isn't any worse than music when I was a kid. We had good music that we now hear on the oldies stations, and we have the bad bands that more or less fade away. So when we listen back in time, we only listen to the stuff we liked.
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Our tastes don't really calcify we just don't have any buttload of free time anymore to go exploring new music. So
we stick with what we do know and like. It doesn't help that pop music is an even bigger marketing behemoth than before.
And the length of the monthly pop music carrousel keeps shrinking.
I don't think it's either but i'm curious to see which way the comments degrade today..
being a decade old in the early 90's, i grew up loving music from the 70's+, i was trendy enough to get into the backstreet boys, spice girls, snoop dogg, soundgarden. recently, ive found myself still loving music from the 60's+ and detesting both audio-ly and visually. my "new thing" is "chicks that sing". that has opened me up to bypassing cultural/familial prejudice in music, and has enveloped a real enjoyment for country music. Lindsey Stirling (sp?) is up there on enjoying music that mixes genre. i still crank "the momma's and the pappa's" or bob dylan when i hear them. my biggest concern for people experiencing music is not having the resources (friends or knowledge) to really experience music.
I came of age in the late '70s and early '80s, and my musical tastes reflect that.
There have been some new discoveries along the way. I adore Sheryl Crow, and thought Lady Gaga was a breath of fresh air. With those exceptions (and a few others) I haven't heard much of interest since the early '90s.
I remain baffled by rap.
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Freddie Mercury. Harry Belafonte. Led Zeppelin. Highway Star. Cyndi Loper. Pumped Up Kicks. Tron & Switched-On Bach. The Sons of the Pioneers. Chip Tune. Paranoia. Jimmy Hendrix. The Bobs. The Grateful Dead. R.E.M. Moonlight Sonata. The Disney Electric Parade. The Final Fantasy VI soundtrack. Forever Young. The Hukilau Song. Over the Rainbow, and Make New Friends. Joy of Man's Desiring. Gnarles Barkley.
It seems like every year, I get into more music. I discover things that I never saw in older music (such as The Sons of the Pioneers), and I also like seeing things from my childhood revisited, like with Mesh. I have a hard time finding what I consider to be genuinely "new" music; I always have this sense that I am hearing a mutation or freshening of things that have come before.
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I started off as a kid only liking only a few very narrow genres and as time has marched on come to appreciate a lot of diversity.
I have a more musical interests now in my late 30s than at any other time of my life.
The only challenge is shuffling my playlists can lead to some... challenging combinations of music (Classical to Jazz, not so bad, but Folk to South African rap-rave, not so easy)
Always listened to a broad range of music. Not a fan of atonal jazz/classical, rap, hip-hop, or trance. Pretty much open to anything outside of that.
My modus operandi on Spotify is to type in some word I see when stopped in traffic and peruse the results. The only problem I encounter is that there is much, much more mediocrity out there (in all musical styles) than there is truly innovative stuff. So I have to sift through a lot of sand to find the gems.
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In my teens and twenties I listened to a pretty diverse selection of music, just not much that was too popular, and not very loud. I mean, as a teenager still living in my parents' house my father would play on the computer in my bedroom and comment how he couldn't hear the music I as playing (which half the time was Venom or Slayer, that he hated anyway...)
But then in my thirties I lived in urban India, where the noise from outside my apartment was usually louder than I liked music, people yelling, maids sweeping the ground, cars honking, trucks revving engines, jackhammers, feral dogs barking, the fucking watchmen blowing whistles to call rickshaws up the street, and all that. And that's hurt my ears, so they're always ringing and now I can't hear a lot of subtleties in music unless it's played loud enough for the loud parts to cause pain. So I got to where I could only listen to rock music that didn't have too much range to the sound.
I only recently got a pair of good headphones and I'm rediscovering some parts of music again. Although a lot of the quieter bits are lost when I listen on the subway going home from work.
Music virtually died in the late 90s, as far as I'm concerned. I was in my 30s. Nirvana is a lonely signpost on a desolate two-lane highway, leading into a rap desert.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
by 'musicians' like Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, and boy bands.
It's not that my tastes calcified, it's that I know music from the 50s-80s wasn't as brutalized and over manipulated by audio engineers, and musicians used to be able to actually sing and play instruments.
'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
I was listening to rock and metal as a teenager, things like Motorhead, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult. I still enjoy hearing the 'soundtrack of my life' from back then, but I can think of nothing more boring and tedious than listening to nothing but all of that for the rest of my life. I enjoy hearing new music on a regular basis. Of course there is some utter and complete crap out there, too, that I can completely do without, but that's not different than it ever was for me either. Looking at me, you wouldn't think that I'd've latched on to Beastie Boys or Kid Rock or Rage Against the Machine, but I did.
My bottom line: You want to preserve your youth? ACT LIKE IT. Don't allow yourself to 'calcify' in any way, physically or mentally, and you won't. Keep reading, keep learning, keep hearing and seeing new and different things, and for fuck's sake keep moving. You let your body turn to shit? Your mind will soon follow. And vice-versa.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
I stopped listening to music a long time ago, when I was still in my teens. I'm now 25 and I find that I enjoy instrumental/classical music a lot more than the pop/rock I was listening to before. Now they just feel like loud noises.
I'm in my late 30's (*sigh*) and my music tastes have only expanded. Thing is - they expanded into areas that still aren't the current "popular music." It's difficult to tell how that would be represented in this report.
Granted I'm likely an outlier of sorts but it's not clear that the methodology would consider me such.
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- Charles Darwin
I wouldn't say that people's tastes calcify. Good music holds up to the tests of time and bad music doesn't.
There is a lot of music of low quality produced in every age that became popular then but doesn't hold up. Even in the 19th century there were then popular composers that practically nobody listened to ten years later.
I started liking early '80s synth-pop when I was in my mid-30's - a genre I didn't listen to when I was younger because it had its peak when I was in kindergarten. But I listen to only a small subset of the music from that era. The music I listen to tend naturally to be from the groups who still go on tours, the songs that are still being made into covers and remixes - because that is the subset of the music of that genre and era that was the best.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Maybe this explains why 90% of my friends annoy me with their crap musical taste. Not that it's actually "bad" as such, just that it's incredibly limited. The vast majority of my friends continue to listen to the same stuff over and over essentially forever. I, on the other hand, get into new (to me) artists and genres all the time (at age 47 currently) and, in fact, my musical taste continues to expand as I learn more about the variety that exists. It's amazing to me that anyone would want to continually re-listen to the same music instead of discovering new (or old) things. Strikes me as someone reading the same 100 books or watching the same 100 movies over and over and over again for their entire lives... Very sad...
If YOU are the kind of person who falls into the "limited musical taste" category, take heart. You can change it. My musical tastes used to be limited also; but in college I realized this and started purposefully expanding my horizons. Sometimes it takes a while to understand and appreciate a musical style that is different than what you are used to. It took me a couple of weeks of listening to begin to enjoy the (for example) the Billy Holiday / Madeleine Peyroux sound, and an even longer time to begin "grasping" Tom Waits. Leonard Cohen, on the other hand, spoke to me instantly, so your mileage my vary by artist / genre. As for genres; I continue to struggle with R&B, but I'm slowly making inroads. My musical taste has expanded so much, and my love of music has grown vastly. So stagnant musical is something you can, and IMHO *should* work to overcome.
We kind of forget that most popular music of every generation sucks. Listen to the oldies station and you hear the few good songs from that era, the rest are thankfully forgotten. As you get older you don't want to listen to the current generation of crap until it ages a bit and the good stuff survives.
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Anyway, I was the guy at school talking a lot of my friends into Slayer, Metallica, Discharge...
or maybe Jethro Tull
I stopped caring about pop when I was about 13.
Much of that was driven by the popularity of Wham, Michael Jackson and Prince.
I can't help but think there are many types of people on this survey, some will be rigid, others will always be dynamic. I personally listen almost exclusively to alternative rock stations, and while I like my favorites, I quickly tire of the repeat playlist on your Morning Zoo.
But most importantly, I follow the 5/10/85 rule. 5% of music is timeless brilliance, 10% is listenable yet disposable, and 85% is crap. Those percentages vary by genre.
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You run out of fucks to give as you get older about popularity contests, particularly idiot pop stars, when other shit like career and family take over... If music is important to you, you expand into more diverse genres. If it wasn't that important you, you listen to what you like and that's that.
I'm a fan of food metaphors to explain attitudes to music. Giving up pop music is like becoming a food snob or a diet freak. You become a grouch. By all means know what you like, but don't stop being social, you know?
In fact it pays to listen to pop. It's easy to assume pop is pap, but the opposite is often true. It is not just thrown together, but carefully crafted and clever, cutting edge art. The average musician can learn from studying it.
Of course I say this from the safety of the UK where pop actually evolves month to month, and dance music (EDM over the pond) has been mainstream since the late 80s.
Retail music stores have disappeared, MTV has faded into irrelevance, so how does anybody know what the "top charts" are anymore? In all seriousness, where does one find these? There are a million web sites all claiming to have authoritative lists. Also, with the recent availability of unlimited streaming, I have experienced an explosion in diversity of musical tastes in my mid-40s. I no longer have to take chances on albums or individual tunes I might not like -- I can listen to a hundred different artists in one day.
I ascribe much of the death of Rock and Roll to MTV. Taking an audio experience and making it audio/visual seems to have killed the audio. My favorite group growing up was Heart, and IMHO the pinnacle of R&R was their pre-1980 body of work. The vocals and guitar work were simply amazing. After about 1984 they went pop/video and that was the end of it. Now if you want new R&R you have to listen to a country station and catch Band Perry or Jason Aldean. The upside is that some country is also very listenable, especially songs with steel guitar, possibly the most interesting instrument in the history of mankind.
Anecdotally, my kids listen to '70s rock and old country more than anything else. Thrilled they don't like rap. Double yuk.
...and I listen to pretty much what I listened to in my teens with a few "new" bands as time has passed. I must have calcified early. I listen to music everyday and exposed my kids (in their teens now) to my tastes from the day they were born. They unfortunately have turned to nauseating pop music mostly, but don't complain about my tastes when played in their presence. Finding new music is too difficult- though I could probably try Pandora. As far as calcifying, I am surprised that I can listen to the same stuff so many times, but it never fails to please. What can I say?
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Grew up on Casey Kasem
First album purchase was the Saturday Night Fever sound track
Spent high school/college listening to Rock/Metal AND New Wave/Post Punk
Brief Grunge fling in the 90s, then ELECTRONICA, mainly Trip-Hop/Downtempo/Trance/ProgHouse. Electronica remains my favorite genre.
Lately I'm all over the place... World (Reggae, Flamenco, Samba, etc..)NOLA Jazz & Blue Grass get a lot of play plus, and still, a bit of all of the above.
I listen to music less frequently than I used to but to a huge variety of music and a couple of live shows a year.
Pushing 50... Haven't bought a proper album in 20 years but I do splash out for some of my favorite (non-millionaire) artists every now & then. I try to buy as close to the source as possible, preferably from their own website. I don't use streaming sites unless I'm hosting a party & being lazy.
I do hate most of the radio, but more because of commercials & DJs than the music. While my daughter's pop is frequently grating., I even like myself a catchy Katy Perry tune every now and then.
I thought it was weird that my dad was stuck at listening to music from late sixties and early seventies. Now I'm stuck at around '95.
I was all top 40 as a teenager but it was kind of a golden age during the heyday of the Beatles and Stones. Since then my taste has expanded and I appreciate just about any kind of music if it's well done. One thing that helped was going to concerts of big names. Van Cliburn came to the university I was attending and I went to the show just because of his name but he just blew me away with his virtuosity and that turned me on to a lot of classical. Same thing happened with jazz at a George Benson show and with Bill Monroe at a bluegrass show and BB King at a blues show and I could go on. A great musician is a great musician no matter what their genre. I've even heard a few rap/hip-hop songs I enjoyed.
Nowadays I mostly listen to a lot of folk/bluegrass/Americana with a healthy dose of classical and when I'm in the mood I'll tune into the local classic rock station which covers rock from the 1950s to 1980s. But what I seek out and appreciate the most is live concerts of nearly any genre with great musicians.
Hmm was this nailed from AARP magizine ??
I mean really people how does this relate to /.???
News for nerds eh?? What are we? an AARP shoot-off?
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There are exactly two different kinds of music - good music and bad music. What makes music good or bad is left up to the individual - everybody has different opinions.
I'm 62, from a small town in Alabama, a child in the fifties, high school in the late sixties, college in the early seventies, and guess what? I like it all! From classical to the latest, there's good to be found (and a LOT of crap). There's even good and bad music from the same artist, e.g. Eric Clapton early was great, but kinda lame later.
I usually listen to music played randomly from my collection. You could hear an old bluegrass song followed by Nirvana followed by Bach followed by a gospel song followed by a Disney tune. The only thing all the songs have in common is that they're only the good ones.
On the road I listen to XM. The presets are Symphony Hall, Met opera, Lithium, Classic Rewind, Bluegrass Junction, and BB King's Bluesville.
When you git old, you ain't nothing but a hound-dog.
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I gave up on pop music years ago when rap came out.
Even though rap must still be VERY popular (because thats pretty much all I hear when listening to what's coming from other peoples cars at least here in AZ), I have absolutely no respect for and nothing at all in common with the prison/drug/gangasta culture or their values, so don't like the mindset that produces or likes rap, so I get literally nothing out of listening to it other than a stress headache.
The problem is there appears to be almost nothing new that isn't rap, a derivative of it, or heavily inspired by it, except blatant commercial crap obviously targetted solely at teen girls.
Furthermore the advent of technology in mainstream music has completely deemphasised the importance of skilled musicianship, and replaced it with a sound that is completely overproduced rather than live/natural.
I'd go as far to say that even 80's punk had far better musicians on average than any of todays rap bands, and they were often trying to sound crap on purpose.
That as much as anything is why I keep listening to the same old rock bands, even though I am myself bored with the lack of anything new to listen to.
I am pushing 50 and never really liked much the garbage on the pop charts. I still want the same thing I wanted when I was young, a steady rotation of new music from a variety of the rock genres which today for me is mostly what is on the alternative or indie charts. I really do not understand how people can listen to the same tired old music over and over again. I visit the past as long as it has not been beaten to death, something I have not heard in awhile or something I have never heard before.
The only way I may have calcified is with Country music. To my ears it died years ago. I can listen to Country from the 20s up until the 90s after that forget it unless it is Bluegrass.
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>Retail music stores have disappeared, MTV has faded into irrelevance...
Also, let's not forget what deregulation of broadcasting, and dropping the ownership limitations has also done to our political process and musical diversity/opportunity.
Except for some public and college stations locally owned broadcast outlets were pretty much all swallowed up.
For new music, I get every single free song or album I can from every source I can. Google Play is a gold mine of free music.
I've stopped getting "Explicit" music, I'm just not into sucka noiz any more.
But I hear very little I want more of. I'm rediscovering the 60s-70s again.
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My musical taste has varied over the years and certainly did not 'calcify' when I was in my 30's. I've always been open to a wide variety of music..like I say..anything from Mozart to Minaj. I've had periods where I would listen to more of one genre than another..like a period of top 40 in college, a period of progressive rock later in the 70's..then the disco of the era. Then a period of Motown, The 80's was more R&B, then in the 90's more classical (Beethoven epecially)..then back to R&B and hip hop in the 2000's along with music of the early to mid 20th century from Grofe, Gershwin, Delius as well as Rimsky Korsakoff (early 20th century). And at the same time enjoying Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Charlie Wilson, Rihanna, Chrisette Michele and others. I'm now in my mid 60's..so any talk of one's tastes solidifiying at such an early age as 30 is total nonsense.
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The Golden Age of popular music was 1955 - 1995. It's over. That's not to say that all modern music is rubbish, or that there won't be another equally phenomenal period in future, but that particular seam has been mined out.
I feel that I does not often seek out new music anymore although I do come across new stuff I like from time to time. :(
However the complete lack of dynamic range usually makes it a short relationship. I have CDs with music from the 40 years ago with more range than new music. (Yes I know cd wasn't around then)
But beware of new remastered versions of old music as they like to butcher that too
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Moved to LA in 1981. Started listening to KXLU. Dead Head, Who Maniac, punk rocker, also embraced the whole psychedelic scene.
Eno!
And yet, in my dotage, I still listen to KXLU (and donate regularly), go to all the "real" bands from yesteryear (The Dead coming up in June, The Who in September) and go to all the really cool bands of today.
If you musical tastes are "calcifying" you have other problems. Probably problems inside your head. Check inside your head. For problems.
Rock and Roll is forever! And forever young...
Some new stuff gets on my play list but I also go back in time before I was born to listen to music. Not much in to country though unless your playing something like the Devil Down in Georgia or something.
But there's a few new bands that have talent, not noise like most of the 90's through today. I'm 56 but still enjoy rare talent. Here's one of the new ones that catch my ear https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just because i think justin beiber is a fagot and drake is a untalented fuckface does not mean my musical tastes are "calcifying" or becoming "rigid". It just means I don't listen to fagot shit.
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I'm in my early 40's so I grew up when MTV was first on the air - I started on there. I didn't like a whole lot of the music but I appreciated the synergy of visual and audio elements. I didn't start listening to just music until the Mid-80's but I was into old school rap - Eric B and Rakim, Eazy E, NWA, Stetsasonic, BDP, etc. In 1989 I was given an album that would change my life - Disintegration by the Cure. I began listening to Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths, New Order, Siouxie, that late 80's early 90's alternative. Then grunge came out and pretty much took over the alternative scene I still dislike the whole sound. I started listening to early industrial bands like Ministry, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, NIN and Nitzer Ebb. I particularly liked Nitzer Ebb because it had some of the things I liked in rap music. I started delving into more obscure bands, and by the mid 1990's I was listening to almost exclusively gothic/industrial bands.i have gotten to the point that that sort of music is normal to me. I can't see/fathom listening to other stuff. Around 10 years ago I started listening to some metal bands.. mostly gothic metal. As I've grown older I find my tastes going toward more extreme harsh metal and industrial. Now pop music I don't just dislike I can't stand it. To the point of getting a headache... Meshuggah and Dawn of Ashes soothe me. Taylor Swift Rhianna, that sort of stuff make me really messed up in the head. The thing I like about the more obscure stuff is most of these bands are making music to make music. Especially in the industrial scene the big money isn't there. Pop music and even many of the rock and rap bands are manufactured to produce a steady stream of hits - the music is produced, refined, and marketed for maximum returns on investment. Image is more important than substance. I'm not saying all artists are like this but many of them are.
I listen for beautiful music, preferably vocal. Well crafted music. I like Francoise Hardy and Patty Pravo for the voices, late ABBA for voices and the competently designed works.
I reject tunelessness, hatefulness, howling or whiny or raspy voices, and people that think that yelling on-key is the same as singing (which describes most male pop singers).
My taste hasn't so much changed over the years as it has refined. I find that I'm less willing to listen to dreck, and often have to resort to classical when there's no adequate pop to be found.
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My 35yo son recently sent me a clip of some god awful "rap artist" singing "Windmills of my mind" and asked me to listen to the lyrics, I sent him back the Dusty Springfield original so he could hear them.
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That's what is interesting about classical music
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My fairly conservative wife became a metal head at 40+ starting from a normal radio "adult" taste. It was a concert on TV that started her interest. We started to go to concerts and she started to dress differently. I don't know if she ever will listen to jazz or to a string quartett, but an open mind and the internet, that gives you access to former "hidden" music, helped to make the pass from mere curiosity to a deeper involvement.
Times are better, not worse now. There is much easier access to much more music. But it's much harder to find orientation because the material is sheer overwhelming.
Men want to be individual, women want to belong.
As everything else. In music, movies, drinks, women. So where are the news, exactly?
In my experience, teenagers are the least open-minded listeners of all. My two daughters are a case in point. They used to be at least a little receptive to a variety of music when they were in elementary school. Now they refuse to listen to anything besides contemporary pop with Auto-Tune. When they branch out, they aren't looking for something different; they're looking for more pop crap that sounds like the narrow range of pop crap they already listen to.
While I personally had a distaste for pop music starting in my early teens (I am male) I now (33 years old) find myself sometimes listening to some pop music songs on pupose while working out or going for a run. I do still listen to mostly non mainstream "rock" music, and have added newer bands to my playlist over the years, but find what I want to listen to is driven more by my mood or what I'm currently doing than by the generalization made in the article cited.
I have music from all different musicians. Classical, pop, foreign. One of my newer favorites is a song I heard when reading an old article about a Eurovision music contest. I can't understand a word the man is singing, but I love the tune, the guitars, and the composition. What we have lost is variety and exposure. You used to be able to go to a record store and hear all kinds of music, but today the record/music stores are gone. You only have radio and TV as your daily exposure to music, but they just play the same songs over and over.
Every set of parents thinks their generation of music is the best, and that all kids should have to listen to all of it because they don't appreciate true good music. That was the same situation in the 30's, the 50's, the 70's, the 90's, and now. I'm 30 and love my 90's music like my parents loved their 70's music.
The only thing I dislike about music today is this push that you have to be part of the 'culture' of the music to appreciate it. I love fast, heavy music that my brain has trouble keeping up with. Unfortunately, this means I can't go to a concert without feeling like an outcast unless I cover myself in piercings and tatoos, and get ridiculed for my passive listening style. It also means I get ridiculed for hating the unbearable growls that have infiltrated various sub-genres of metal. The further these sub-genres go is also the more likely that you'll be ostracized for liking any other type of music, and I listen to a good variety.
There's a good satire song that kind of describes how I feel about a lot of music 'culture' - Rock n Roll Lifestyle by Cake.
When I was around 9 years old, listening to the Beatles, I noticed that people only liked to listen to music from their era. I promised myself to keep up and to learn to appreciate new music trends - not like my foggy 30 year old parents who cursed rock-n-roll.
But I could never appreciate rap, or Madonna.
While it's true that I am less interested in chart toppers, I am always moving and finding new styles of music. More extreme metal, folk, classical, jazz, blues, rap. I have much more diverse tastes than when I was young. And I do like new music if I think it's good.
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Having a child effectively made people, on average, four years older than their real age in terms of musical tastes.
I'm in my mid 40s and know more about music (emerging artists) now than I did 20 years ago. Part of that is because I don't have children and have been able to spend as much time as I want on discovering new music. I still see plenty of live shows where I'm standing around a bunch of 18-30 year olds seeing a band on their first national or international tour. Another part is that the internet makes it really easy to discover artists. You can follow various online playlists and let them do all the work for you. https://open.spotify.com/user/... (1 song per artist discovery playlist) https://open.spotify.com/user/... (indie rock favorite songs of 2014) End the end, you have to be open to discovering new music and give it time to grow on you. If I hear something and think, "it's ok." There is a decent chance it'll get better with repeated listens. In fact, most of my favorite albums took time to grow on me. The songs that turn me off right away rarely/never will appeal to me with more time.
I only read the excerpt here, but that definitely describes me. As a kid I heard music on the radio, by the time I went off to college I'd decided that radio was shit, I branched out in my 20s, and I'm now in my mid 30s listening to the results of that branching.
So far, though, I've still maintained a promise to myself I made when I first gave up radio, in 1997 or so, that I'd never stop looking for new music. I promised myself that I wouldn't listen to the music of my youth for my whole life. So far, so good, but I have a long way to go.
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I listened mostly to Jazz and Classical since I was about 12 and being 27 now it's still what I mostly listen to.
I went from 70's rock/disco then later to punk in the late 70's to new wave in the 80's, hair metal in the mid-80's, detested grunge throughout it's short and useless life and basically graduated to electronica/house and various forms of metal ever since and haven't looked back. Skipped pop and modern hip-hop too. Although the classic hip-hop i still enjoy.
Public Radio has dedicated some stations to Big Band Era calling it The 1920's Radio Network. (It also contains Big Band era.)
I think it is the only place you'll hear Satchmo and Ella on the airwaves anymore. I never realized Satchmo sang Swanee until I heard it with mine own ears.
First time I heard Rosie the Riveter Song too. Sorry to hear the poster model died the other week.
And if it matters to the question at hand, I'm in my late fifties. (Note how good my grammar and spelling are.)
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